Mission Creep: From Rescuing Iraq Refuges, The US Is Now Assisting Kurds In Fighting ISIS With Drones, F-18s

Just over a week ago, Obama announced that the US military intervention in Iraq would be solely under the pretext of "humanitarian intervention" while US troops would be deployed exclusively as "advisers", and nothing else. 7 days later, the siege on Mount Sinjar is virtually over with the US announcing that "far fewer Iraqi refugees were found on mount Sinjar", and yet the US finds it difficult to leave: something which the current president crusaded against his predecessor over. And today it was finally confirmed that the latest US airborne assault of Iraq (so far without a land invasion force) has just suffered terminal mission creep, when US airstrikes, by both F-18s and drones, were used not to protect and safeguard the besieged refuges but to aid Kuridsh forces in retaking the critical Mosul dam from ISIS militants who took control of the critical piece of infrastructure in early August.

BBC reports that the operation to recapture the country's largest dam began early on Saturday with raids by F-18 fighters and drones, US officials said.

Kurdish Peshmerga fighters have shelled militants' positions, and there is an unconfirmed report of a ground attack. Supposedly no US troops are involved in the ground attack, although with the level of lies lobbed around by everyone, it is almost assured that US marined are currently engaged in combat with ISIS.

US military officials told NBC News the decision to try to retake the dam came after intelligence showed IS militants "were not yet at a point where they could blow up the installation".

A Kurdish commander, Major General Abdelrahman Korini, told AFP that the Peshmerga had captured the eastern side of the dam and were "still advancing".

Rudaw, a Kurdish news website, said the air strikes appeared to be the "heaviest US bombing of militant positions since the start of air strikes" against IS last week. At least 11 IS fighters were killed by the air strikes, sources in Mosul told BBC News.

The dam, captured by IS on 7 August, is of huge strategic significance in terms of water and power resources. Located on the River Tigris about 50km (30 miles) upstream from the city of Mosul, it controls the water and power supply to a large surrounding area in northern Iraq.

The BBC's Jim Muir in Irbil says there are fears the dam is structurally dubious and many have warned that it could unleash a catastrophic flood if it was breached.

One wonders if it is extensive military planning that has green-lighted an operation as having "no risk" of dam breach as F-18s are launching missiles at militants located at or near the dam wall.

An image said to show Islamic State gunmen on the Mosul dam on 9 August

An FA-18 takes off from the US Navy aircraft carrier USS George HW Bush in the Gulf on Friday

For the latest update on the combat theater we go to the usual source: the Institute for the Study of War with its most updated Iraq situation plan:

So now that Obama is the latest president to suddenly find it next to impossible to extricate himself from a "land war in Asia" and mission creep for the indefinite future virtually assured, one wonders just what humanitarian excuses will be used when the first US pilot (let alone marine) is brought back home in a bodybag, and less relevantly, if the Nobel peace prize-awarding committee will suddenly have an epiphany and finally demand its trophy back.

...and now, for the next 12 months or so, they will have the perfect cover , "Trayvon 2" , to keep the sheep looking the other way ... baaaahh baaaahhh baaaaahhhhhhhhh btw hey Don Lemon go choke on a big bag of hairy dicks you MSM tool buttbandit

He was born in Kenya in 1963 , Kenya was under British rule then so he is of Engilsh decent, so you have your first King of America , just remember that you US CITIZENS or subjects as the crown likes to call slaves.

yup...Frank Marshall Davis was definitely his dad. This whole thing with obama has be a coverup from very high up to conceal that fact by making up all this Kenyan bullshit. He's nothing but a Marxist, commie, traitor, just like FMD was...a scumbag by any other name.

For serious evidence which I believe proves FMD is o-fuck-tard's father, just watch this documentary movie: Dream From My Real Father

Bill Ayers wrote o-shit-head's stupid-ass book for him but included a whole lot of clues that lead back to FMD as the real father.

And the photographic evidence comparing o-shit-for-brains side by side with the Kenyan and FMD seems more than obvious immediately.

Not to mention all the porno pictures of o-kneel-and-bob's scumbag slut whore "mother" in FMD's house in Hawaii posing nude all over his living room pretty much seals the deal on this bullshit coverup story to conceal a planned plot to overthrow America with a Manchurian Marxist Trojan Horse traitor, our current Dick-taster In Chief.

Like it fucking matters. Dude hasn't called an audible since his seventh round of golf when Arlen Specter pulled him aside and showed him the other Zapruder film.

Neocon shitstack runs foreign policy, corporate shitstack runs domestic policy, fed shitstack owns them both. Might as well just have a fucking muppet in the Oval Office and it's really tragic how much time seemingly intelligent people spend obsessing over which color muppet they run with.

co-opted to the re-write of history in the current epoch's dialectic of psychologically weakening cynicism. Gives material manifestation to Orwell's planned-predictive rollout of Newspeak. Confuses and disorientates the masses. All the more easily manipulated and reprogrammed. Breakup of language, family, culture, bonds, social cement etc. Good article here on Soviet Union manual on how to take over a civilisation. The Tribe are pretty good at it, and covering their tracks for decades after it's done.

'Peace Prize' is to give the 'community organiser' (are you being 'organised' yet? Ferguson? Are you there Ferguson? Come in Ferguson....) cover and free hand to wage unlimited war. According to the laws of Inverse Orwellian Newspeak, the more robust the prize, the more robust the authority to wage war. His public imprinture is 'peacemaker'. (Like the ICBM missile).

someone recently said its difficult to get rid of those russians but with 1,000 (?) american bases around the world and regular bombing it sure looks like its way more difficult to get rid of americans.

An effective technique for males in order to keep performing sexually after ejaculation involves refusal to withdraw. Mental focus and concentration that forces one to maintain erection takes but two minutes or so, and the exersize of full masculinity becomes apparent after practicing this method. Sessions that last two to three hours each day (or night) can thusly be achieved (and anywhere from 20 to 30 orgasms OR MORE will be experienced by your female partner). (NO SARC)

SHIT!

I thought you were discussing sex. My mistake.

I'll have to go look up the ancient goddess 'ISIS' for further understanding.

In the case of Soetoro's contnued fucking in the ass of Iraq, I'll have to reference 'Michelle' and 'Strap-ons'.

ISTANBUL — Yazidi leaders and emergency relief officials on Thursday strongly disputed American claims that the siege of Mount Sinjar in northern Iraq had been broken and that the crisis was effectively over, saying that tens of thousands of Yazidis remained on the mountain in desperate conditions.

Yazidis don't have any oil, so they're useless to Obama and Nettanyahu.

Western Kurds are already there helping. The PKK and PYD crossed the mountains from Syria last week and engaged ISIS to rescue the Yazidis. But the PKK and to a lesser extent the PYD are considered terrorists and enemies of NATO. Why? Well, they want autonomy and independence from Turkey. And... they have no oil. The Western Kurds don't even have an interesting location for U.S. or Israeli spy posts or military bases, so they're even more useless.

They're just farmers and laborers that happen to live on the Syrian/Turkey border. They're not rich and not politicians. They have no lobby in D.C. like the Southern (Iraqi) Kurds. They have no luxurious mansion as a proto-embassy in D.C. (like the Southern Kurds) to wine and dine pedophile politicians. Worst of all. Israel has no (like zero) interest in them. The Western Kurds don't even exist.

The Southern Kurds guarding Sinjar just picked up and left rather than defending the Yazidis - they knew full well the town would be immediately overrun by ISIS and the Yazidis slaughtered. Why didn't they defend the Yazidis' home? Because there's no fucking oil there. The Southern Kurds will be glad to claim the land as part of an independent Kurdistan, but they have no intention of protecting non-Kurds on non-oil-bearing land.

So for Obama and the Southern Kurds: ethnic cleansing mission accomplished. Throw the Yazidi garbage over the border to the Western Kurd Terrorists where they can all be killed by the FSA, be bombed by Turkey or die of starvation.

Yet no on in the media has the balls to ask why we are flying from the Persian Gulf, with a refueling mission, all the way to northern Iraq instead of 20 minutes away flying time from our NATO airbase in Incirlik, Turkey. Of course if anyone did they would discover that it is Turkey and the CIA supplying arms and logisitics equipment to ISIS courtesy of a Qatari paycheck.

Remember the scene in Braveheart where the leper King Bruce told his his son Robert "support him (William Wallace) from our lands in the south and oppose him from our lands in the North (or something like that).

Its over 1hr flight time from Incirlik to Mosul - then mission time on task, then return = 2.5hrs. You need Air refueling to do it from Incirlik. I know cause I flew missions over Mosul from Incirlik in 1999. What is needed is a committment to bomb ISIS off the planet. Deploy an airwing (A10s, AC130s would be nice) into an Iraqi airbase and get the job over with - not little pinpricks. The USA destabilised and destroyed order in this part of the world - now it should bring order and not cower at home because it fucked it up last time. It made this mess now it needs to clean it - even if it means boots on the ground. Meantime the UK that fucked up Libya should take moral responsibility as well and go in and restore order there. Its too late to say we dont want to be involved. We got involved in 2003 and 2010 and now we have to carry the can and not slink away from the shit we laid in the bed.

DAMN the passengers on MH 370 and MH 17! The WAR on TERROR must go ON!

"China Declares Australia a Military Threat Over US Pact"

"Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel announced the U.S.-Australia Force Posture Agreement on Tuesday alongside Australian minister of defense David Johnston and minister of foreign affairs Julie Bishop.

Hagel said during a press conference, “This is a part of the world that represents five of America’s seven treaty obligation countries that we are committed to, which we’ve made very clear we’re committed to.”

CHUCK. Not 'CHARLES', or 'CHARLEMANE', but 'CHUCKIE'.

HAGEL. Not 'BAGEL' or 'FALAFEL', but 'HAGEL' (pronounced 'HEGEL'; as in 'HEGELIAN DIAECTIC', with the same connotation and definition).

Stalin was Jewish and so was that fuck Churchill ,who would not let the Germans surrender 6 months before because the bomb was not ready that was droped on Japan AFTER they has singned the surrender, they are all satanic fucks.

yup, or until another source of abundant energy is found which wouldn't be shared with middle easterners

Until then, all the nirvana seekers will still fatten their ass with food made cheap by oil coming from middle east made possible by the blood of american soldiers to fatten up the asses of american football and soccer fans in USA and Europe

Ever hear of E = m*c^2? Further consider how humongously large c is-and you will understand how really outmoded getting energy by breaking chemical bonds is! Hint: this is how the sun works so its the ultimate source of all energy (including fossil, of course) on earth. We mastered its technical application just around WWII.

BREAKING: The Pentagon won't confirm to reporters whether the bombs are armed with explosive war heads or copies of Obama's Nobel Peace Prize. It's important not to jump to conclusions when understanding how we're handling the situation with these folks.

Im thankful for the US having the stones. Whether the west armed them or not, those ISIS cretins are off the chart. The west arms all sorts of wasters, but when they go around chopping off heads and putting them on spikes, it's time to admit you got it wrong and fix the mistake. Hopefully learn from it, not likely though.

From perpetual "War on People," to bankster handouts, to the totalitarian surveillance (militarized) police state, to their open borders/non-enforcement/amnesty policy, the Bushbama regime has been a seamless continuum of destruction. Nothing changes, especially their central bank puppetmasters.

Things have deteriorated to the point that Americans are using every opportunity to take their eyes off what is happening in Iraq, the country has become a train wreck and is rapidly morphing into a failed State. It is often unwise to take your eyes off a problem for long because when you look back you might find that things have gone horribly wrong, this is the case in Iraq and Syria.

It appears America had to do something as the group called ISIS shocked much of the world by swiftly capturing Mosul in an offensive that allowed it to take control of major parts of northern and western Iraq. On June 29, 2014 the Islamist militants declared an Islamic "caliphate" in an area straddling Iraq and Syria. More on this subject in the article below.

Supporting Kurds (and Chevron) with weapons or air strikes is not mission creep. (There are undoubtedly U.S. "advisors" on the ground assisting with targeting the air strikes.) Supporting a Shia-only government in Baghdad would be mission creep - that's Iran's job.

Does the National State of Emergency that has been in effect and continued since Sept. 2001 for one ridiculous reason after another allow the President to do what he wants?

It seems like Congress is just putting on an act and willingly bends over every time Obama does something else criminal. Obama doesn't even act like he cares what they say or do. It wouldn't surprise me that everything is an act now to continue the fraudulent facade that has come what American's used to think of as America.

Here's an example if you don't know what I'm talking about. I believe this short statement that is recorded as required by law means you're all living in the dictatorship presented as a fantasy that was America. But please correct me with additional evidence if I am wrong.

The leadership of ISIS is conrolled by CIA/Massod. The ISIS grunts are not aware of that and believe all the BS from the leaders.

The Kurds better be careful. The CIA has used ISIS to get the leadership of Iraq to beg the US to return and put military back in Iraq. Shortly after you have a mini coup and the current leader removed. Surprise? No.

Now the CIA is using the ISIS (stupid) fighters to get the Kurds to let the US cozy up to them. The US military and CIA will imbed and infiltrate the Kurds, learn who to assasinate and who they can install to replace some of the Kurds leadership. The US does not like the Kurds getting too friendly with Turkey or selling oil through Turkey. The US wants all the oil sold through the approved channels for control issues and to take a cut of the profits to be funneled into private accounts and into black opps accounts.

Just like the recent Iraq leadership the Kurds have invited those who wish to destroy them into their tent.

The Peshmerga will have US special forces embedded to designate bombing targets though I'm sure these are classifies as "advisers" (advising where to drop bombs).

Recapturing the dam is important because its so poorly built it needs nearly daily maintenance or it will fail on its own even without the terrorists. Apparently the dam is built on a bed of gypsum; the same stuff your walls are made of.

I sense B-52s with GPS guided bombs making long loiter sorties over the area and dropping one or two bombs at a time. And no way the region is not completely covered with the EC-135 AWACS command and control aircraft and scores of refueling aircraft.

I understand that the Peshmerga had a day + of ammo left when the Brits pulled out their consulate in Erbill. It was only when the Kurds told the US "hey, we're out of ammo in 1 day and the Zombie ISIS horde will over run Terminal...er i mean Erbill" that the US decided to get involved.

That is the only reason Obama did anything - he couldn't have Erbill go down on his round of golf.

You guys who are writing from Momma's basement have no idea what it is like to be in Iraq - literally, it is Night of The Living Dead here. We just need to roll in B52s, AC-130 Gunships and roll them towards Saudi- the fucking Saudis are the ones who made this ISIS zombie horde, let them deal with the blow back (and pay for it with money).

Speaking of Saudis, i understand there are quite a few Saudi license plates running around in IS controlled territory as the Bedoiuns want to get in on the raping and pillaging...or maybe they are just looking for maids in the slave markets that have popped up - children 7 to 18 are fair game. You tell me.